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A new study has proven the main takeaway from Billie Jean King's famous triumph over Bobby Riggs in 1973's Battle of the Sexes: men are a bunch of choking dogs. That's the finding of a new working paper published by four university professors who ...Vocativ, 1 month ago

When I was a young child, I remember the made-for-TV tennis match between Bobbie Riggs and Billie Jean King, which was dubbed " ." The dominant women's tennis player of that era easily defeated the aging male athlete after he did a lot of trash ...

CINDY PEARLMAN NYT Syndicate Emma Stone was only 15 when she left her native Scottsdale, Arizona, and moved to Los Angeles to be a star. Within a few years she had achieved ... nothing. "Did I think about quitting show business? Totally," the ...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - 1977 "You look great out there, but your mind is made of goulash," my Dad yelled at me as I missed a blistering down the line backhand. Sure I looked good, I had long strokes and nice clothes and I looked every bit the tennis ...

Florence Henderson died this week at age 82, and it hit those of us of a certain age especially hard because she was our Bonus Mom, the one who took care of our television universe the same way our real mothers made certain that the real world ...

Boxer Katie Taylor and women's football team Dick Kerr's Ladies When Katie Taylor enters the ring for her professional debut on Saturday night, she will be blazing a trail for female boxing in Ireland and Britain. This is something the popular ...